Sophie Couchman

Professional Historian and Curator

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Projects

2025: Behind the Scenes Tours of the See Yup temple

Types: Tour, Upcoming

2025: After the Fire: Recovery Efforts at the See Yup Temple

Types: Talk, Upcoming

2025 Chinese Australian Whispers podcast

Types: Project

2024: The Old Reliable Firm, Good Workmanship Guaranteed: A Chinese Australian story of family, migration and entrepreneurship

Types: Book

2024: CAFHOV Family History Day

Types: Talk

2023: The problem with oral history

Types: Talk

2023 What Verey’s camera lens reveals about Castlemaine’s Chinese community

Types: Talk

2023 See Yup Temple: Its history and heritage

Types: Talk, Tour

2023 Presentation at Loong Community Symposium

Types: Talk

2023 Castlemaine Art Museum (Historical Collection) Significance Assessment

Types: Project

2022: Treasures of Dai Gum San

Types: Exhibition, Research

2022 Oral histories as sources for family historians

Types: Research, Talk

2022 Interviewer: Collecting Chinese Australian Stories

Types: Project

2022 Clarendon Street Stories (Melbourne Open House)

Types: Talk

2022 ‘Visiting Chinese Australian homelands’

Types: Talk

2022 ‘The Australian roots searching program and its social impact’

Types: Talk

2021 Talk on Victorian CEDT Index and CEDTs

Types: Talk

2021 Significance Assessment for Golden Dragon Museum

Types: Project

2021 Jeff Fatt and ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Types: Project

2020 Warrnambool Chinese families and their place in Australia’s Chinese history

Types: Lecture

2020 The Balaclava ‘flatites’ and an historic bluestone stormwater drain

Types: Roaming, Tour

2020 St Kilda Main Drain: A pandemic project

Types: Podcast, Research

2020 Gunditjmara Bundiya | Gunditjmara Alive

Types: Project, Website

2019 Women’s Stories Women’s Lives panel discussion

Types: Talk

2019 Transcribing Chinese travels into Victoria’s history

Types: Project

2019 The history of Chinese migration

Types: Lecture

2019 See Yup temple, South Melbourne

Types: Lecture

2019 National Family History Month

Types: Lecture

2019 Melbourne Context Travel tours

Types: Tour

2019 Mee How Ah Mouy: Architect and Community Leader

Types: Lecture

2019 Makassar-Yirrkala: Artistic Exchange, Symposium, Exhibition and Documentary

Types: Project

2019 Journeys into Chinese Australian Family History

Types: Book

2019 Invisible Farmer project

Types: Research

2019 Dome at Dusk: Canton to Castlemaine – Chinese miners in Victoria

Types: Lecture

2019 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour

Types: Tour

2018 Video lecture, Diploma of Family History, University of Tasmania

Types: Lecture

2018 The Dim Sim Chronicles

Types: Lecture

2018 Shooting the Past (Season 2)

Types: Podcast

2018 Secrets, Silences and Sources (2nd edn)

Types: Book

2018 Interview ‘William Ah Ket: The first Chinese-Australian barrister’

Types: Podcast

2018 Glitch (Season 3)

Types: Research

2018 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour

Types: Tour

2017 The Camera At Work

Types: Research

2017 Chinese Australian Hometown Heritage Tour

Types: Tour

2017 British Migrants: Instant Australians?

Types: Exhibition

2015 The Chungking Legation

Types: Book, Exhibition

2015 Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance

Types: Book

2014 The Jones’ Australian-Chinese Bed

Types: Website

2014 Bridge of Memories

Types: Exhibition

2013 Language, A Key to Survival

Types: Website

2008 Remembering Chinatown

Types: Tour

2005 Secrets, Silences and Sources

Types: Book

2005 Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia

Types: Website
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